Shugart Bus
Shugart may refer to: *Shugart Associates, computer peripheral manufacturer * Shugart bus, floppy disk drive interface *Alan Shugart, founder of Shugart Associates *Clyde Shugart, College and Professional American Football player * Kenneth Shugart, American naval officer and All-American college basketball player * Matthew Søberg Shugart, orchardist and professor of political science *Rita Shugart Rita Shugart (née Kennedy) is an American Contract bridge, bridge player. Shugart won her first national title in 1998. She won the Reisinger, arguably the most difficult of all the North American Bridge Championships to win, in consecutive year ...

Shugart Associates
Shugart Associates (later Shugart Corporation) was a computer peripheral manufacturer that dominated the floppy disk drive market in the late 1970s and is famous for introducing the -inch "Minifloppy" floppy disk drive. In 1979 it was one of the first companies to introduce a hard disk drive form factor compatible with a floppy disk drive, the SA1000 form factor compatible with the 8-inch floppy drive form factor. Founded in 1973, Shugart Associates was purchased in 1977 by Xerox, which then exited the business in 1985 and 1986, selling the brand name and the 8-inch floppy product line (in March 1986) to Narlinger Group, which ultimately ceased operations circa 1991. History Beginnings Alan Shugart, after a distinguished career at IBM and a few years at Memorex, decided to strike out on his own in 1973; after gathering venture capital, he started Shugart Associates. The original business plan was to build a small-business system (similar to the IBM 3740) dealing with the developm ...
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Shugart Bus
Shugart may refer to: *Shugart Associates, computer peripheral manufacturer * Shugart bus, floppy disk drive interface *Alan Shugart, founder of Shugart Associates *Clyde Shugart, College and Professional American Football player * Kenneth Shugart, American naval officer and All-American college basketball player * Matthew Søberg Shugart, orchardist and professor of political science *Rita Shugart Rita Shugart (née Kennedy) is an American Contract bridge, bridge player. Shugart won her first national title in 1998. She won the Reisinger, arguably the most difficult of all the North American Bridge Championships to win, in consecutive year ...

Alan Shugart
Alan Field Shugart (September 27, 1930 – December 12, 2006) was an American engineer, entrepreneur and business executive whose career defined the modern computer disk drive industry. Personal history Born in Los Angeles, he graduated from the University of Redlands, receiving a degree in engineering physics. Shugart was the father of three children: Joanne Shugart (1951-1954), Christopher D. Shugart (b. 1953) and Teri L.K. Shugart (b. 1955). Shugart was married to Esther Marrs (née Bell), the mother of his three children, from 1951 until 1973. He was married to Rita Shugart (née Kennedy) from 1981 until his death. Shugart died on December 12, 2006 in Monterey, California of complications from heart surgery he had undergone six weeks earlier. Career He began his career in 1951 as a field engineer at IBM. In 1955 he transferred to the IBM San Jose laboratory where he worked on the IBM 305 RAMAC. He rose through a series of increasingly important positions to become th ...
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Clyde Shugart
Clyde Earl Shugart (December 7, 1916 – July 2, 2009) was an American football guard in the National Football League (NFL) for the Washington Redskins. He played college football at Iowa State University and was drafted in the seventeenth round of the 1939 NFL Draft. Early life Shugart was born in Ames, Iowa and attended Ames High School. During his high school football career, he earned first-team all-state honors and was named as "the finest prep lineman in the state" by the Des Moines Register. College career Shugart then attended and played college football at Iowa State University, where he was a member of one of Iowa State's best football teams in school history. During his senior season, he played right tackle with All-American guard Ed Bock on the 1938 "Cyclone Eleven" squad that produced a 7-1-1 record for coach Jim Yeager. Shugart earned all-Big Six Conference honors and received All-America board recognition, playing all but 20 minutes of the entire season. ...
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Kenneth Shugart
Kenneth Laverne Shugart Jr. (November 11, 1925 – June 19, 1985) was a United States Navy rear admiral who served in two wars. Prior to his service, Shugart was an All-American college basketball player at the United States Naval Academy. Shugart hailed from Cheyenne, Wyoming and joined the coach Ben Carnevale and the Navy Midshipmen as a swingman after a successful three-sport athletic career at Cheyenne High School. During the 1946–47 season, Shugart served as team captain and set academy scoring marks for a single-game (29 points) and a season (255), both since eclipsed. The Midshipmen also qualified for their first NCAA Tournament, losing to eventual champion Holy Cross in the first round. At the close of the season, Shugart was recognized as a second-team All-American by the Helms Athletic Foundation. Following his graduation from the academy, Shugart became a highly decorated Naval pilot and commander, seeing action in both the Korean War and Vietnam War and earning f ...
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Matthew Søberg Shugart
Matthew Søberg Shugart is an American political scientist. He is a Distinguished Professor of political science at the University of California, Davis. He is also an Affiliated Professor at the University of Haifa. Shugart specializes in electoral systems, party systems, and the design of political institutions, primarily through empirical studies of political systems across large numbers of countries. Shugart is also an orchardist, and runs the ''Fruits and Votes'' blog on electoral systems and fruit growing. Education and positions Shugart attended the University of California, Irvine, where he graduated with a B.A. degree in political science in 1983. He continued to study political science at the University of California, Irvine, obtaining an M.A. degree in 1985 and a Ph.D. in 1988. In 1989, Shugart became a professor in the Department of Political Science and School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at The University of California, San Diego. In 2013, he moved ...
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